These terms get thrown around a lot by health influencers on social media. But what exactly do they mean?
Many social media influencers are riding the autophagy train these days as a means to counteract aging. Consume these nutrients, do these activities, meditate, blah blah, and you’ll promote autophagy in your body. It’s good because it does help one to age more gracefully.
Then they’ll introduce their affiliate shopping links to the products that they endorse. Without really explaining what on earth autophagy is all about.
But let’s stop to look at what’s happening in our body from a biochemical standpoint first.
Our body comprises trillions of cells
It comprises 38 trillion cells, to be slightly more precise. These cells are present in just about every part of our body as parts of various different systems. I do explore what constitutes a system in Making Sense Of Our Immune System.
Before we go into the immune system proper, we do need to determine what constitutes a system. The definitions of a system on Dictionary.com include:
1. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole.
2. A coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme.
Every healthy organisation is an example of a well-oiled system. In the grand scheme of things, an employee who works in a company is part of that company’s system. Within that system exist many different departments — some departments deal with internal organisational functions, such as Human Resources (HR) or Information Technology (IT).
Without those departments, an employee may not be able to work efficiently with current technological tools, or they may not get paid their wages promptly.
There are other departments that deal with the external side of things, such as the sales department, which focuses on providing solutions for clients. A person who is working in HR would not necessarily be suited to work in sales, for instance.
All these individual departments have mid level managers and higher level management tiers, who are present to regulate the workflow and the tasks that are required for each department to function and to improve.
Communication is key for each department to be on the same page — hence emails, messenger apps and phone calls are necessary to get messages sent across effectively. A nastily worded email can create its own issues inasmuch as a vague email can cause confusion.
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